Children are the keys of paradise.

Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.